Bead Review: A Year of Exception
BK86
Bead Review: A Year of Exception is a full-color inspiration book for beadmakers and lampworkers that showcases art glass beads alongside the artists’ own commentary. It is constructed as a printed paperback volume with 105 pages, featuring photographs of beads and written insight into the inspiration and processes used to create them. This title is especially useful when you want fresh design direction, better visual vocabulary, and a clearer sense of what is possible in contemporary beadmaking, whether you are developing new surface ideas, refining form, or looking for color and composition inspiration.
Author: Brad Pearson
ISBN: 987-0-9770831-3-8
Use this book as a bench-side reference and idea generator. Flip through it when you are planning new bead series, exploring new techniques, or trying to solve design problems like balance, focal placement, and surface complexity. The artist commentary makes it particularly valuable for lampworkers who want to understand not only what they are seeing, but why the bead works and how the maker approached the process.
